Wednesday, December 30, 2015

December 30 - The Deliberate Stranger

Today’s movie is a crime drama with a scene that happens on December 30. Watch this film tonight.

THE DELIBERATE STRANGER     
       
In 1974 Ted Bundy is a handsome law student living in Seattle with his girlfriend. Meanwhile the police are investigating a series of disappearances of young women. Witnesses come forward saying they had been approached by a young man who called himself ‘Ted’ who drove a VW bug. Ted leaves Seattle for law school in Utah. The police start to find the bodies of the missing girls  and Ted’s girlfriend starts to suspect him. Ted continues killing girls. Then a girl escapes from Ted. The Seattle police use a new innovation, a  computer, to look for links in the cases and the Great Basin police forces start to work together on the case. Ted is arrested for evading arrest. The girl who he tried to kidnap identifies him. We learn that Ted was  illegitimate.  Ted is convicted of kidnapping. He is indicted for murder in Colorado. Ted escapes from the courthouse, but is recaptured. On December 30, 1977 Ted escapes again from the county jail where he was being held pending trial. [2:40:33 to 2:44:39] He is arrested a month later in Florida after he had killed several more girls. Ted is convicted of murder and sentenced to death.
                   
A very scary movie. Mark Harmon did an excellent job of portraying Ted. He conveyed the surface ordinariness of Ted while hinting at the evil beneath. .
                     
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule (Signet, New York, 2001) at page 271 and the film at 2:41:13 give the date of his successful escape

Producer - Marvin J. Chomsky

Director - Marvin J. Chomsky

Screenplay - Hesper Anderson

Running Time - 3 hours 5 minutes

Released - May 4, 1986

Starring -         

Mark Harmon as Ted Bundy
M. Emmett Walsh as Sam Davies
Frederic Forrest as Robert Keppel
George Grizzard as Richard Larsen

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015

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